This tests whether two categorical variables are related, meaning if they affect each (whether they are independent or associated. Your null hypothesis would be that these two variables are independent. Your alternate hypothesis would be that these two variables are dependent. To carry out this test, you must make sure that all the expected counts are greater than 1 and that 80% of these data are greater than 5. Moreover, you must make sure that the data was received by SRS and that the sample is independent.
Afterwards, you can plug it in to your graphing calculator in a matrix and use the x^2test. However, if you do not have a graphing calculator, you must calculator the expected value of each value. You do this by multiplying the total counts in the row * total counts in the column/ total counts. Then for each value, you take: (Observed - Expected)^2 / (Expected). After you receive different values, you add them up to make up your x^2. Afterwards, you find the P-Value but looking at a chi distribution curve/table and find the area that is greater than x^2 value. If it is small, you can reject the null hypothesis (like less than 0.05). If not, you fail to reject the null hypothesis and therefore conclude that these two variables are independent.
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For goodness of fit test using Chisquare test, Expected frequency = Total number of observations * theoretical probability specified or Expected frequency = Total number of observations / Number of categories if theoretical frequencies are not given. For contingency tables (test for independence) Expected frequency = (Row total * Column total) / Grand total for each cell
Chi-square is a statistic used to assess the degree of the relationship and degree of association between two nominal variables
There are many chi-squared tests. You may mean the chi-square goodness-of-fit test or chi-square test for independence. Here is what they are used for.A test of goodness of fit establishes if an observed frequency differs from a theoretical distribution.A test of independence looks at whether paired observations on two variables, expressed in a contingency table, are independent of each.
Fisher's exact probability test, chi-square test for independence, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Spearman's Rank correlation and many, many more.
The Pearson chi-square test will tell you how well a given set of observations fit some hypothesised distribution. That is, you have some idea as to what the distribution should be and the test will show how closely (or not) the observations agree with that. Another use is to test the independence betwen two (or more) matched observation on a set of subjects.